Called by E J Pay

Author:E J Pay [Pay, E J]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781733120210
Publisher: EJ Pay
Published: 2019-07-08T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

We are moving quickly through the water and have been for several hours. Gwen’s arms and legs are still wrapped around me, their strength all but gone. Her protective posture is like a blanket in the blackness. I am wrapped by Gwen and she is wrapped by several octopi. Two or three at least. Neither of us has spoken since we were captured. We each have an octopus tentacle firmly clasped over our mouths. At times I even find it difficult to breathe.

Finally, I feel that we are moving downward. The water around us is getting colder and darker. We come to a stop. I hear voices and sense sea creatures talking to one another. Like the consciousness of the octopi, the sea creatures’ minds are new to me. Maybe sharks, maybe eels. Definitely not sea creatures found in Atlantis.

The pressure around my body relaxes as the octopi release Gwen and me. I fall to a stone floor of a cave. Poor Gwen. She has been holding onto me for so long that her limbs are completely limp. An octopus picks her up and carries her in its many tentacles. Fingers grow grotesquely from the ends of each tentacle. He is a two-worlder. His transformation is almost complete. Gwen is unconscious and the octopus two-worlder swims with her through a door at the back of the cave. My own arms and legs tingle like mad as I lie on the stone floor. I feel its unyielding cold, even in these frigid waters. My voice is hoarse and cracked when I finally speak to our captors.

“Where are we? Why have you brought us here? We cannot possibly be worth anything to you.”

“Oh, you are worth much more than you know, Dearie,” I recognize that voice. No, I recognize that consciousness. It is the shark who attacked Pisces. As my eyes adjust to the greenish light of the small cave we are in, I turn my face upward toward the great white shark. His eyes are glossy black and his nose large and pointed. I see rows upon rows of sharp teeth in his massive jaws. His tremendous, scar-covered body hovers in front of me as I speak to him. From where I sit, I cannot see his right flank – the one I hit with my mace. The memory of it still brings me some satisfaction. A smile creeps onto my face.

“What do you smile at, child?” the shark communicates angrily down into my eyes. Those eyes on that body I saw attacking my protector. My entire body goes from cold to hot in a matter of seconds and I feel the water around me heating up with my anger.

“What have you done to Pisces?!” I shout. It is the shark’s turn to smile now. A low, rumbling chuckle starts from deep within his throat and grows and grows until a full bodied laugh erupts from his massive jaws. “Pisces?! Pisces?! What have I done to Pisces?! Let me tell

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